LESSON 12
Noun 1: horas, injuria
Noun 3: amor, amori, obligatio, canem, nemo, legum,
interpres, consuetudo
Relative & Interrogative Pronoun
Adjective 1,2: seneras, nulla, certum, primum, commodum, optima, sua
Adjective 3: omnia, impossibilium, impossiblile
Preposition: ex
Verb 1 : numero, clamant, spiro, spero
Verb 2 : tacent, cave, nocere, habere, debet
Verb 3 : vincit, cedamus
Irregular verb : est
Adverb: non
Conjunction: et, nisi, cum, dum, quia, enim
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Maxim 91-100 (misc)
Amor vincit omnia et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all and let us yield to love.
(Vergil, Eclogae)
Horas non numero nisi serenas.
I count only the bright hours.
(Inscription on ancient sundials.)
Cum tacent, clamant.
When they are silent, they cry out.
(Cicero, In Catalinam)
Dum spiro, spero.
While I breathe, I hope.
(Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum)
Impossibilium nulla obligatio est.
Nobody has any obligation to the impossible.
(Corpus Iuris Civilis: Digesta)
Cave canem!
Beware of the dog!
(Inscription at the entry of Roman houses.)
Certum est, quia impossibile.
It is certain, because it is impossible.
(Tertullianus, De carne Christi. Later in the form Credo,
quia absurdum -- I
believe, although it is absurd.)
Primum est non nocere.
First of all, do no harm.
(Hippocrates; The maxim has become an ethical guiding
principle in medicine.)
Commodum ex iniuria sua nemo habere debet.
No person ought to have advantage from his own wrong.
(N/A)
Optima enim est legum interpres consuetudo.
The best interpreter of the law, is practise.
(Corpus Iuris Civilis: Digesta)